u had to prove it? ydi

As ridiculous as it sounds, doctors tell you what you can and can't do for a reason

Usually I'm surprised at the things people with click YDI for, but with this one I'm amazed that over 3000 people think you DIDN'T deserve it. The doctor totally warned you, and who doesn't know not to mix pain killers with alcohol anyway?

The reason they tell you not to do that is because you could DIE. Next time listen to your doctor. YDI.

Be happy that you aren't dead

Dude that's exactly how hockey player Derek Boogaard died!

Why the heck would you ever mix pain killers with alcohol?! You're lucky you just acted like an idiot instead of ending up in the hospital..or morgue!!

Not listening to your doctors advice?? You could have made whatever you're on your medication for a lot worse!! Listen to your doctor next time. It's their job to make you better. They know what they're talking about!

Okay, first of all, that's not how potentiation works. Painkillers (I'm assuming you mean opiates) don't tend to have that affect on people when they're mixed with alcohol. I'm assuming they had to have interacted with something else in your system. Or you got drunk, in which case YDI and you get a dunce cap. Secondly, potentiation is actually a reasonable course of action. Potentiation for the uninitiated is the act of taking chemicals such as alcohol, dextromethorphane, quinine (tonic water) or grapefruit juice to make medication have a stronger or longer-lasting effect. These chemicals affect your metabolic rate and can make the drugs seem more potent. The point is that that way you consume less of the drug and so you can keep your tolerance fairly low while still having the same affect. It also means that when you have particularly painful days, you can just take slightly more and potentiate and thus not waste the drugs. For people with chronic conditions, this usually means that they won't have to keep getting new prescriptions when it's inconvenient because they've run out and if they consume less they won't get as high (incidentally, people who take opiates and are in legitimate pain tend to go right through them without getting high, so let's reserve our judgment for later and assume he did have a legitimate reason for taking them and wasn't just a moron). Incidentally, the doses of the potentiator (alcohol in this case) are generally not going to be enough to get drunk on. So if OP did get drunk, then mixed it with opiates, he is indeed a moron. If OP had a glass of wine to potentiate and then took opiates an hour later, it just went badly and probably reacted to something else in his system. :S I've been on liquid oxycodone for about three years for pain associated with endometriosis and adenomyosis, so before people start yelling at me: I do know what I'm talking about and it is definitely possible to do this safely. With potentiation, I've been able to keep my doses and my tolerance down to a third of what they were when I first started on it. I frankly don't like or enjoy taking it and it's extremely rare that I take enough to get me high as I am just in that much pain. I also have no withdrawal symptoms when I stop taking it. Potentiation keeps addiction rates lower and lowers drug consumption, meaning it's a lot easier on your system (liver and kidneys) and allows you to be more functional and have fewer drug hangovers.

Every med says not to use with alcohol it's pretty common knowledge...